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"Popular consensus" for the first rock concept album, according to AllMusic, favours Sgt. Pepper. [11] [16] According to music critic Tim Riley, "Strictly speaking, the Mothers of Invention's Freak Out! [1966] has claims as the first 'concept album', but Sgt. Pepper was the record that made that idea convincing to most ears."
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Concept albums have been produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." The following ...
Days of Future Passed is the second studio album by English progressive rock band the Moody Blues, released on 17 November 1967, by Deram Records. [8] It has been cited by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and others as one of the earliest albums of the progressive rock genre and one of rock music's first concept albums.
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Rock operas (6 C, 250 P) S. Science fiction concept albums (1 C, 98 P) Pages in category "Concept albums" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The magazine described it as "one of rock's more elaborate, beguiling and strangely rewarding concept albums". [102] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [103] Banks later thought the album's concept the weakest thing about it, though the lyrics to some of the individual songs are "wonderful". [104]
The same publication later ranked it in 2022 as one of the best concept albums ever made. [114] In 2011, IGN named The Black Parade one of the best rock albums of the 2000s decade. [115] That same year, Kerrang! included the album in its "666 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die!" list with a score of 5 "K" 's, calling it a "genre-defining album ...
A concept album and rock opera about a world where rock music is outlawed, it is named after a famous World War II graffiti tag, "Kilroy was here." It was the last album of original material to be released by the "classic" lineup of Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, James "J.Y." Young, John Panozzo, and Chuck Panozzo.